Alpinus
Alpinus, of the Alps, Alpine
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
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Alpinaque Proper-name adjective: neuter nominative plural, Proper-name adjective: neuter vocative plural, Proper-name adjective: feminine nominative singular, Proper-name adjective: feminine ablative singular, Proper-name adjective: feminine vocative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter accusative plural of Alpinus
- of or pertaining to the Alps, Alpine: rigor, Ov. M. 14, 794: nives, Verg. E. 10, 47: Padus, which rises among the Alps, Valgius ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 11, 457: gentes, dwelling upon the Alps, Alpine people, Liv. 21, 43: Alpinus hostis, the Gauls who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy, Ov. F. 6, 358: Alpini mures, marmots, Plin. 8, 37, 55, § 132.—Horace, on account of a bombastic line of the poet M. Furius Bibaculus, in relation to the Alps (Juppiter hibernas canā nive conspuit Alpes), calls him jestingly Alpinus, S. 1, 10, 36; cf. id. 2, 5, 41; Weich. Poët. Latin. 334 sq.
a name which Horace (Sat. 1.10. 36) gives in ridicule to a bombastic poet. he probably means M. Furius Bibaculus. [BIBACULUS, M. FURIUS.]
one of the Treviri, the most powerful of the Belgic people, and the commander of a cohort in the army of Vitellius, was sent into Germany after the battle of Cremona, A. D. 70. Together with his brother, D. Alpinus, he joined Civilis in the next year. (Tac. Hist. 3.35, 4.31, 5.59.) [Civilis.]
- Alpes, of the Alps, Alpine: rigor, O.: nives, V.: gentes, L.
A name given by Horace to a contemporary poet, supposed to have been M. Furius Bibaculus (q.v.).